Exactly one year ago I was lucky enough to be figuratively flailing my arms with my wonderful butterflyfish feeding group in Belize while trying to wrap my head around the fact that soon I would be heading to Australia for 5 1/2 months. This year I'm reminiscing with friends, re-posting pictures of both Belize and Oz and trying to appreciate the cold and snow that I was able to escape last year.
Along with the snow and the inescapable long winter months, Christmas also looms ahead in the near future. I kind of hate holidays, for multiple reasons. For one, holidays are great reminders of being single, because let's face it, at some point we all reach the age where all of our friends are spending the holidays with their partners and all of our cousins and relatives that we're stuck celebrating with are in relationships. For another, nobody seems to celebrate any of the holidays for the right reasons, they become big commercial celebrations that everybody dreads. Which brings me to my last point, nobody else has the holiday spirit, so how am I supposed to? But this year that's going to change, because I'm forcing the holiday spirit on myself. And thus far its been going pretty well. I think I've chosen a good year to do this. I've spent the past two weeks on what should just be called Christmas Island, seriously I think there's a parade and five or six craft fairs every weekend in November and December. I'm also spending some time in New York City which should also help. I don't think I can say that I'm really in the Christmas spirit yet, but it's only the second day of December so there's still time. And I'm determined that between studying for and taking the GREs, applying to grad school and writing grants that I will find time to really get into the swing of things this Christmas.
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